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asked rhetorically, and with an allusion to Lord Acton's famous
aphorism that absolute power corrupts absolutely, whether "we
discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not
corrupt as it has done before?"
Lewis's political thought is so imbued with concerns about
governmental overreach that even his account of government's
legitimate purposes soon slips back to warnings about the dangers of abuse. His ideal government was meant to protect negative rather than positive freedoms. Given this, it is no surprise
to find he was very concerned about the developments of the
twentieth century: thinking about how to promote the virtues of
limited government and a healthy civil society requires an incisive
analysis of the modern mind.

The radical altering of the public mind
Lewis's most straightforward account of the modern mind is
found in his essay "Modern Man and His Categories of Thought."
Though primarily concerned with implications for Christian
apologetics, Lewis's observations pertain to the culture broadly
speaking, and thus to political thinking as well. We see in his
description a conservative analysis of how Western society has
changed, and not for the good. "In the last hundred years," Lewis
wrote, "the public mind has been radically altered." Lewis proposed that six changes have contributed to this radical break: (1)
an educational revolution; (2) the emancipation of women; (3) the
advance of historical developmentalism or what he called "Evolutionism"; (4) the rise of Proletarianism or democratic egalitarianism; (5) an emphasis on practical knowledge over wisdom; (6)
and an increasing skepticism toward reason. With the exception
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